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Can We Get An Apology?

From JohnnyB's Crevo Bits blog:

I've heard SO MANY TIMES from evolutionists who complain that there is no difference between micro- and macro- evolution, and that the distinction is an invention of creationists who have their head in the sand. Now, the micro- macro- distinction is often used in evolutionary peer-reviewed literature (some even adding an in-between level -- meso), but the evolutionists who complain about Creationists not publishing in the peer-reviewed journals seem to not have read it. Now that PZ Myers is officially on record about the micro- macro- distinction, can all of the evolutionists who complained about this being a false distinction created by deceitful Creationists to apologize?

Just to clarify -- I don't think that PZ ever made this accusation. But I have been in a great number of evolutionary debates, and in nearly every one where the topic was discussed, they said that micro/macro was a false distinction created by Creationists.

(just to note, depending on how it's defined, Creationists don't necessarily disagree with macroevolution per se, either)

Over at Post-Darwinist, Denyse O'Leary points out that even though some Darwinists object to the term "Darwinist," that is the term they themselves use, of themselves.  Fully documented.

Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 08:06AM by Registered CommenterDaniel James Devine in | Comments1 Comment

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No apology is owed to the creationists. Scientists do talk about a distinction between macro and micro, but it's completely different from the bogus and artificial division that creationists make.

People who say there is no such distinction made might want to apologize to the scientists whose work they don't understand, but to the creationists? Pfft. They've mangled the idea even more severely.
August 23, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterPZ Myers

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